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Gadgets
fromTheregister
4 days ago

Lightmatter says latest photonics will halve DC fiber bill

LightMatter's Passage L20 optical engine reduces datacenter fiber usage by half using near-package integration instead of co-packaging, positioning between pluggable modules and co-packaged optics.
Gadgets
fromTheregister
4 days ago

Ayar Labs, Wiwynn to cram 1,024 GPUs into photonic system

Ayar Labs and Wywinn are developing a rack-scale platform using silicon photonics to connect over 1,024 GPUs with significantly lower power consumption than copper-based systems.
Environment
fromTheregister
1 week ago

Singapore eyes barge-based hydrogen power for datacenters

Bridge Data Centres and Concord New Energy are developing barge-based hydrogen power generators to supply dedicated power to Singapore's datacenters while optimizing land use and reducing carbon emissions.
fromTheregister
2 weeks ago

50 GW of datacenter demand queues up for UK grid access

About 140 datacenters are in the queue to be connected to Britain's power grid, and their combined energy requirements are estimated to be more than the current peak electricity use for the entire country. It identified about 140 facilities, the majority of which are likely to receive a Gate 2 offer, which is a 'ready-to-connect' agreement, and these add up to a total of 50 GW of demand for electricity.
Miscellaneous
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Trane swallows LiquidStack to juice its DC cooling lineup

You may recall LiquidStack was one of the early players in two-phase immersion cooling, and first dunked servers into tanks of dielectric liquids to cool down crypto mining operations. Microsoft was among the first to trial LiquidStack's tech all the way back in 2021. Since then, the company has expanded its portfolio to include both single-phase and dual-phase immersion tanks, plus direct-to-chip cooling technologies, including a rather beefy 10MW modular coolant distribution unit (CDU).
Artificial intelligence
Environment
fromTheregister
2 months ago

Meta reacts to power needs by signing long-term nuke deals

Meta contracted with nuclear firms to secure roughly 6.6 GW of grid-delivered nuclear power to support future hyperscale datacenter demand around 2030.
Artificial intelligence
fromTheregister
3 months ago

Amazon's Trainium3 is the latest to conform to Nvidia's mold

Hyperscalers are standardizing rack, compute, and networking designs so different accelerators and custom blades can share modular MGX chassis and infrastructure.
DevOps
fromTheregister
3 months ago

OCP learning how to get quantum computers into existing DCs

Datacenter operators must adapt infrastructure for co-locating quantum and classical HPC, addressing cryogenic cooling, environmental controls, magnetic shielding, weight, humidity, and scheduling.
UK news
fromTheregister
7 months ago

Britain's AI datacenter plans face energy, cash challenges

The UK government faces significant challenges in its aim to become a global AI superpower, including energy and infrastructure issues.
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